Anyone else use equipment/tools long after they should have been replaced?
04-22-2012, 11:51 AM
#11
Power Poster
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Front row
Posts: 14,646
I'm just the opposite. Once a tool doesn't perform like new it's tossed. You know the feeling of clean fresh sheets? That is the feeling I get when using perfectly working sewing tools and that's what I want. I don't waste time using worn out tools. I know a few quilters that are so cheap they would reuse staples if they could. I don't waste time trying to convince them to buy something that works for you not fights you.
04-22-2012, 12:17 PM
#12
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: North Manchester, IN
Posts: 199
Yup, yup and yup. I'm a cheapo. I admit it. I have an 8x24 ruler that the one side is quite eroded, I did go so far as to make a large mark on it with a magic marker so I knew that was the old one. Then I bought a new one. Now I use them both for squaring up a quilt - just put them at right angles to each other and it gives me a good square for marking.
I have a triangle ruler that has the one tip broken off.
I don't think I've ever thrown out a seam ripper - I just get a new one and the old one disappears into the nether world of my sewing room.
I have a pill bottle full of broken and dull needles. I've been known to pull out one of the sewing machine needles if I'm working on some really heavy fabric, or paper, or with plastic. Wouldn't want to waste a good needle on that :P
I have spools of thread that have been chewed by the dog, or are 15 years old, and just can't seem to toss them.
And the list goes on....
I have a triangle ruler that has the one tip broken off.
I don't think I've ever thrown out a seam ripper - I just get a new one and the old one disappears into the nether world of my sewing room.
I have a pill bottle full of broken and dull needles. I've been known to pull out one of the sewing machine needles if I'm working on some really heavy fabric, or paper, or with plastic. Wouldn't want to waste a good needle on that :P
I have spools of thread that have been chewed by the dog, or are 15 years old, and just can't seem to toss them.
And the list goes on....
The kids 29 and 30 now
but I just can't throw the thread away.
04-22-2012, 12:25 PM
#13
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Vermont, USA
Posts: 1,346
Those of us whose moms grew up in the Depression all were raised to "make do" and save every penny. Yet how much do we pay for fabric these days? I have one of those round blade sharpeners I got years ago, and do try to hone the rotary blades, but once they have a nick, or start leaving "holidays" as I cut, I'm learning to toss them. (wrapped in newspaper, of course.) I love new toys, but am also reluctant to get rid of old ones. Sure love my almost new Gingher scissors, though.
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